Against Entropy

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How Storage innovations Split Search Infrastructure in Two.

Strong consistency and conditional writes in blob storage removed much of the need for stateful search clusters in a large class of workloads. They also split search into two problems that need opposite engineering.

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Creativity is Just Connecting Things

Creativity emerges from connecting ideas across domains. Wide reading builds the raw material, but connections themselves are byproducts of sustained curiosity. The journey matters more than any singl

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Can you win against Entropy

Entropy dictates that all systems naturally tend towards disorder and decay. Counteracting this universal force requires constant, ongoing effort to maintain existing states and achieve improvements,

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Aerodynamics — How Planes Fly
How lift, drag, and thrust work together to keep planes in the air.
Aeroelastic Flutter
Why a paper caterpillar wiggles when you blow on it — free jets, vortex shedding, and wave propagation in flexible structures.
Magnetism — From Bar Magnets to Quantum Fields
How invisible magnetic fields arise from moving charges, electron spin, and the geometry of spacetime.